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David Hare

Playwright / Screenwriter / Film Director / Theatre Director / Writer / Actor / Television Director / Film Producer | * 06/05/1947 (76) | St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, England (United Kingdom (UK))
Sir David Rippon Hare (born 5 June 1947) is an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre and film director. Best known for his stage work, Hare has also enjoyed great success with films, receiving two Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay for writing The Hours in 2002, based on the novel written by Michael Cunningham, and The Reader in 2008, based on the novel of the same name written by Bernhard Schlink. In the West End, he had his greatest success with the plays Plenty (1978), which he adapted into a 1985 film starring Meryl Streep, Racing Demon (1990), Skylight (1997), and Amy's View (1998). The four plays ran on Broadway in 1982–83, 1996, 1998 and 1999 respectively, earning Hare three Tony Award nominations for Best Play for the first three and two Laurence Olivier Awards for Best New Play. His other notable projects on stage include A Map of the World, Pravda (starring Anthony Hopkins at the Royal National Theatre in London), Murmuring Judges, The Absence of ..."> ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | TV Movies | Romance / Love

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Awards & Nominations for David Hare

Evening Standard Theatre Awards British Academy Film Awards PEN Pinter Prize John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2x Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play Golden Bear Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences Knight Bachelor 2x Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay 7x Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play 3x Tony Award for Best Play Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment or Comedy Play 2x Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance 2x Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay 2x BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Satellite Award for Best Adapted Screenplay European Film Award for Best Film
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Movies with David Hare as Actor(5)

Movies with David Hare as Crew(36)

Directing/Director2021 Beat the Devil
Writing/Writer2021 Beat the Devil
Writing/Writer2018 The White Crow
Writing/Writer2017 Brexit Shorts: Time to Leave
Writing/Screenplay2016 Denial
Directing/Director2014 Turks & Caicos
Writing/Writer2014 Turks & Caicos
Writing/Theatre Play2014 National Theatre Live: Skylight
Directing/Director2014 Salting the Battlefield
Writing/Writer2014 Salting the Battlefield
Directing/Director2011 Page Eight
Writing/Writer2011 Page Eight
Writing/Writer2008 My Zinc Bed
Writing/Screenplay2008 The Reader
Writing/Screenplay2002 The Hours
Directing/Director1997 The Designated Mourner
Production/Producer1997 The Designated Mourner
Writing/Writer1995 The Absence of War
Writing/Screenplay1993 The Secret Rapture
Writing/Screenplay1992 Damage
Directing/Director1991 Heading Home
Directing/Director1989 Strapless
Writing/Writer1989 Strapless
Directing/Director1988 Paris by Night
Writing/Writer1988 Paris by Night
Writing/Screenplay1985 Plenty
Writing/Theatre Play1985 Plenty
Directing/Director1985 Wetherby
Writing/Writer1985 Wetherby
Writing/Writer1983 Saigon: Year Of The Cat
Writing/Theatre Play1975 Knuckle
Writing/Writer1975 Brassneck
Writing/Writer1973 Man Above Men

TV Shows/Series with David Hare as Crew(9)

Production/Executive Producer2024 Purity
Writing/Writer2020 Roadkill
Production/Executive Producer2020 Roadkill
Creator/Creator2020 Roadkill
Writing/Writer2018 Collateral
Production/Executive Producer2018 Collateral
Creator/Creator2018 Collateral
Directing/Director1970 Play for Today

Books by & about David Hare


Full Name: David Hare
Citizenship: United Kingdom (UK)
Born: Thursday, 06/05 1947 (June) in St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, England (United Kingdom (UK)) (current age: 76 years + 288 days)
Zodiac sign: Gemini (Chinese zodiac sign: Pig)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: Jesus College, Lancing College
Member of: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Society of Literature
Spouses (current/former): Nicole Farhi, Margaret Helen Matheson
Children: Joe Hare, Darcy Hare, Lewis Hare
Father: C. T. R. Hare
Influenced by/Role models: Bertolt Brecht
Other names for David Hare (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"David Hare (playwright)"
"David Hare (Dramatiker)"
David Hare frequently works together with these people:
Ralph Fiennes (8x, Actor)
Bill Nighy (5x, Actor)
Stephen Daldry (4x, Crew)
Christine Langan (4x, Crew)
Celia Duval (4x, Crew)
Paul Englishby (4x, Crew)
Patsy Pollock (4x, Crew)
Ewen Bremner (3x, Actor)
Linda Bassett (3x, Actress)
Ben Burtt (3x, Crew)
David Heyman (3x, Crew)
Giuseppe Cannas (3x, Crew)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:116053, Added: 06/27/2018, Last updated: 02/21/2024